Covering all of the fundamental and essential skills of leading groups, the Trail Leader Award includes all the skills and practice you need to get out and lead.

Key Content:

Lead and manage your group. Enable them to learn skills, enjoy mountain biking and become more independent.

Whether leading, guiding, instructing or training others, CTC's Trail Leader course is the first vital stage to get you going.

The Trail Leader course combines training and assessment into a single package, so your qualification is completed within one course - and there is no membership requirement or other fees either. We will even provide your food and accommodation at our residential venues. Now that is what we call value for money!

Course outcomes:

CTC Trail Leaders have gained all the fundamental and rounded skills and competencies required of those leading groups of mountain bikers. By achieving this qualification, you will be able to:

Lead groups of adults, young people and children on rides and riding sessions

Manage groups with a range of riding experience from first timers and novice to experienced and expert riders

Use, develop and adapt games and skill sessions to engage and enable discrete riding skills development in your participants

Understand and apply access rights across the UK and beyond

Complete and review rides, using self-reflective principles

Access CTC's extensive Trail Leader Resources covering in detail all the aspects of the course and more.

Of course, you won't necessarily be able to learn everything about mountain bike leading in one course, so Trail Leaders are restricted to Trail Terrain. If you want or need to go beyond this, then using the core principles gained during your Trail Leader Award, you can progress on to CTC's other Leader, Instructor or Trainer strands.

Resources

Resources for the course:

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Dales Bike Centre is in the unique position of being a centre of natural trails. No manmade surfaced trails here - just absolutely cracking natural riding across the north of the Yorkshire Dales. Ideally located for both Trail and Technical Leader courses as well as riding skills, Go MTB and development courses, access to trails is immediate, and the facilities at Dales are great.